No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOWhen composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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